Today marks an entire week of using Haiku as my primary operating system. This
is my first PC to get the most out of any BeOS related operating system to date.
My old 200MHz Toshiba ran R5 PE just fine but without any networking. My
eMachine ran Zeta just fine, but once again, there were networking issues (and
Zeta was pronounced dead around this time). In the age of the Internet, this
pretty much forced me away from BeOS and its decendants until now.

"playing devil's advocate, Mozilla was in a slightly different position as it could be installed along side IE without having to reboot or do anything else with the computer."

At that time, IE dominance was so strong that there was a real concern that eventually you wouldn't be able to use the web without IE. If mozilla wasn't amazingly successful, it would've been a pointless waste of time. People criticized mozilla all the time. But they didn't give up.

Now we have webkit and gecko and it is very easy for any altOS to have a browser that actually works. Haiku isn't doomed; it just needs more help on bezilla and the webkit browser.